«مَا بَقَاشْ فِي الْعُمْرْ مَا يِسْتَاهِلِ التُّوبَهْ»

The speaker argues that so little of life remains that repentance, or tawba, would hardly pay off. With no time left for good deeds to balance past wrongs, they ask to be left alone with their present ways. It is a self-excusing remark, not a sincere theological claim.

More generally, the saying marks anything whose proper season has passed. Once the right moment is gone, late effort looks pointless, and the phrase captures that mix of resignation and excuse when reform or action arrives too late.

Use this colloquial saying when someone resists changing a long-held habit, feeling too much time has passed for reform to matter, or when an opportunity comes too late to act on. Because it plays on repentance, some listeners may find it flippant or irreverent.